7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen

The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen was a mountain infantry division of the German Waffen-SS that was active from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. The division was named for Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Austrian general who had liberated northern Serbia from the Ottoman Empire during the 1716-1718 war; it was raised by Artur Phleps, a Romanian volksdeutsche SS officer. The division was formed from Volksdeutsche volunteers and conscripts from Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, and Romania, and it was engaged in counter-insurgency operations against the Yugoslav Partisans throughout the war. The division was eventually pushed back through Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it surrendered to the Yugoslavs at Celje, Slovenia on 11 May 1945.